Hall of Champions

During his 41-year baseball-coaching career, Mark Johnson participated faithfully in FCA Huddles across the country, often serving as speaker at FCA events and working as the head baseball clinician at FCA Camps.

Retired United States Air Force Brigadier General Dick Abel served as FCA President from 1988-92.

Ron Brown served as FCA’s State Director in Nebraska for four years in between stints as an assistant football coach at the University of Nebraska.

Kathy Malone Sparks has been a champion for FCA for decades. A former collegiate student-athlete and distinguished athletic trainer, she was part of a team that helped create FCA Student Athletic Trainer Camps.

Neil Lomax served as the face of FCA in Portland, Ore., and the Pacific Northwest for many years.

After bringing FCA to the city of Houston and the University of Houston, college football coach Bill Yeoman continued to find ways to minister through sports.

Not only is Deb Patterson a basketball coach, she is also a teacher, a leader and a faithful disciple and follower of the Lord.

Kyle Rote Jr. was a North America Soccer League scoring champion, the league’s Rookie of the Year in 1973, and a three-time “Superstars” champion against the likes of Pete Rose, John Havlicek and numerous Gold-medal winning Decathletes…

Sue Semrau, the winningest coach in Florida State University women’s basketball history, has earned a reputation as a leader who not only guides her teams to victories and national rankings, but also one that helps foster personal growth in her individual student-athletes.

A former high school coach, Ken Smith served as football team chaplain at both Florida State University and the University of South Carolina.